Electronics has been applied to medicine for many years in the form of such familiar equipment as the x-ray_machine , the electrocardiograph , and the diathermy_machine .

In medicine the frequencies are much higher , transducers and the sonar beams themselves are much smaller , and different scanning techniques may be used , but the principles involved are the same as in sonar .

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

At 12 , Hans was sufficiently mature to help his father in the apothecary shop , which helped stimulate his interest in medicine and science .

While Hans devoted himself to the sciences of medicine , physics , and astronomy , his brother studied law .

He completed his training in pharmacy also , taking his degree with high honors in 1797 , and in 1799 was awarded the degree of Doctor_of_Philosophy along with a prize for an essay in medicine .

2. medicine [ n ] the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuriesExamples:"he studied medicine at Harvard"

Used in print:

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

The charge : violation of the California Medical_Practices Act by practicing medicine without a license and selling misbranded drugs .

When authorities convicted him of practicing medicine without a license ( he got_off with a suspended sentence of three years because of his advanced age of 77 ) , one of his victims was not around to testify : He was dead of cancer .